October 2008
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Waste & Recycling E-Zine October 2008 |
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| This Month´s Featured Articles, Papers & Reports |
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Realising the value of recovered glass: An update
Around 1.5 million tonnes of container glass were recycled in the UK in the past twelve months to June 2008, 200,000 tonnes more than a year earlier. However, although there was an increase in the amount of cullet going into remelt applications – including domestic container manufacture, glass wool and export – the majority of the increase was absorbed by the aggregates market. Moreover, the amount of cullet used by the UK container manufacturing industry remains substantially below the peak ... |
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Toronto moves forward with anaerobic digestion of residential SSO
In June 2007, Toronto`s City Council approved the “Target 70” plan to achieve 70 percent diversion by 2010. Target 70 includes construction of two, 55,000 metric tons/year anaerobic digestion plants to process residential source separated organics (SSO). City Council says that the digester facilities, along with adoption of single stream recycling and a pay-as-you-throw funding system, will enable the city to meet its goal of 70 percent solid waste diversion - and extend the life of its Green Lane ... |
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